background and purpose: teaching is a mutual and cooperative process in which the learner and teacher both get affected, thus its effectiveness should be studied from the viewpoint of students and teachers so that by approximating the viewpoints, more effectiveness can be achieved in education, therefore we aimed to study the characteristics of effective teaching from the viewpoint of students ...

The newly administered Iranian Ph.D. Program Entrance Exam (PPEE) is supposed to have had different washback effects on university curriculums. This qualitative study examined the effects of the new TEFL PPEE on the applicants’ study plans and strategies from the points of view of both Iranian university instructors and applicants. To this end, we conducted in-depth interviews with 10 experienc...

Traditional learning content management systems have minimal support for awareness among learners, and tend to support only loosely coupled collaboration features. This paper shows how we have integrated user modelbased awareness features and collaboration features into our learning content management system for both learners and instructors.

BACKGROUND Clinical education is the heart of the nursing education program. Effective nursing clinical instructors are needed for graduating the future qualified nurses. There is a well-developed body of knowledge about the effectiveness of clinical teaching and the instructors. However, translating this knowledge into a context-based evaluation tool for measuring the effectiveness of Iranian ...

BACKGROUND Clinical training is an integral part of nursing education; however, some studies have shown that it is not always efficient. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to find out the factors that can impede nursing students' clinical learning. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this qualitative study, data were collected via reflective journal writing. Purposeful sampling was used, and 12 senior nursin...

The present study was an attempt to examine how questioning was treated by EFL instructors and learners at a private language center in Yasouj, Iran. This study also intended to explore the types of questions posed by the EFL instructors and learners in different course levels and to scrutinize the extent to which the instructors’ classroom behaviors were geared towards enhancing the learners’ ...

It is already known that some collaborative assessment processes can provide students not only the possibility to show how well they have understood knowledge content, but also the opportunity to enhance and increase such knowledge. Such learning activities also allow instructors to diagnose the quality of the instructional process. However there is evidence that this type of activities involve...

Teaching for the first time can be a challenging but rewarding experience. For first-time graduate student instructors, however, it also officially marks the transition from student to teacher—a process that can be both transformational and emotion-laden. In this article, we use content analysis of 86 first-time sociology graduate student instructors’ reflections on their first semester teachin...

Literature has studied students learning in inverted (flipped) classes. However, little attention has been paid to another important set of stakeholders – the instructors. While past research indicates that the inverted paradigm is effective, there has been no analysis of preparing, creating and delivering this instruction model from an instructor’s point of view. We argue that education techno...